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Pretty sure the "trivial" in the blog post is sarcastic, or at least slightly self depracating.
by tubs 4y ago
Pretty sure the "trivial" in the blog post is sarcastic, or at least slightly self depracating.
- michelb 4y agoGiven that writer's track record on self-reflection and introspection, I'd say it's not.
- royjacobs 4y agoIt's not a great look to open a blog post with sarcastic comments referring to (unneeded) controversy, though. Regardless if you were right or wrong.
- GraphenePants 4y agoIt stands to reason that Microsoft, being a professional company, can better determine whether their writing is a great look or not. Unclear that your speculation is based on a higher degree of subject matter expertise.
- royjacobs 4y agoI feel like you are being meta-sarcastic here. It's sarcasms all the way down!
- jtbayly 4y agoThe "trivial" solution doesn't work. And they thus had to do the non-trivial thing and write their own custom text renderer. If I'm right in my reading, the author of the tweet is wrong to complain about them saying it's "trivial," because they never did.
- dmitriid 4y agoA custom text renderer was exactly the trivial solution suggested and demonstrated to them when they claimed it was extremely hard and required a doctoral research.
- jtbayly 4y agoI know nothing about this fight, let alone having a dog in it. But I'm getting downvoted for understanding English. For my point it doesn't matter if they are in the wrong, if it was easier than they claim, if they are rude, etc. All I'm saying is that the complaint on Twitter is that they now called something "trivial" that they said wasn't simple or easy before. They clearly didn't do that.
- dmitriid 4y agoThey literally did just that. And hid behind "community member suggested it".
- jtbayly 4y agoYou should read more carefully. They said the trivial idea was a larger lookup table and Direct2D. And then they said that unfortunately the trivial idea doesn’t work. So instead they had to write their own custom text renderer, which they never imply is trivial.
- Arwill 4y agoIts not trivial, but it is widely understood that fonts baked into GPU texture is the way to go for fast text rendering. The decision, if they care about performance, should have been trivial, their listed excuses are not valid. Dear ImGUI also does this, and while font baking is not trivial, integrating ImGUI is almost.